Posted on 11/25/2014 9:59:18 AM PST by TigerClaws
Last weekend, my housemate and I were mugged at gunpoint while walking home from Dupont Circle. The entire incident lasted under a minute, as I was forced to the floor, handed over my phone and was patted down.
And yet, when a reporter asked whether I was surprised that this happened in Georgetown, I immediately answered: “Not at all.” It was so clear to me that we live in the most privileged neighborhood within a city that has historically been, and continues to be, harshly unequal. While we aren’t often confronted by this stark reality west of Rock Creek Park, the economic inequality is very real.
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When you lose your moral sense, you’ll feel guilty about the stupidest things.
I was mugged also, and I understand why.
I was mugged by a small group of thugs. Speaking narrowly, they mugged me because they were too lazy to work for the things I had and thought stealing would be easier than contributing to society. Speaking more broadly, they mugged me because they were evil, and because their parents were too selfish to have done a better job of raising children who might otherwise have had potential.
I was mugged, and I lost a tooth and some blood in the resulting fight. They mugged me, and they lost more teeth and far more blood in the resulting fight. [I had been threatened by union thugs as a teenager, so I learned self-defense and took it seriously.] I “lost” the fight in the sense that the dental work I needed cost me far more than the money I was carrying would have cost. They lost the fight in the sense that they were not in a position to mug anyone else that night or probably for a while afterwards.
Yes, I’ve been mugged, and I understand why. My understanding is far deeper than that of liberals who think assaulting a stranger and stealing from that person has any redeeming features.
“I’m a liberal and I’ll understand if you have to mug me”
New American Standard Bible "Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.
King James Bible Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
International Standard Version Keep on giving to everyone who asks you for something, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not insist on getting it back.
You're giving him a lot of credit by assuming that he thinks.
Nice pic. Adds to the snivel that I hear when I read the article.
Didn’t know it was possible to mug someone’s IQ. Oh well...
His last conscious thought will be, “This is Bush’s fault.”
I would not.
Roger that. Some sheep simply beg to be fleeced.
If I may make an assumption, I'd guess that the author's contact with the "less privledged" doesn't extend much beyond the couple of brown-skinned guys who take care of the hedges in front of his condo, and a short handful of minorities who might handle some light housekeeping for his housemate and him, or might occasionally prepare his food in a restaurant.
Let's drop him off in Bed-Stuy, or East St. Louis, or East LA, for an overnight. See what his opinion is then, assuming that he's still around to talk about it.
Is that Mr. “Okayyy?” Van Driessen, Beavis and Butthead’s guitar strumming teacher?
One of my best friends from my Air Force career did a tour at the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) back in the late 80s and early 90s. He spent part of his time at the White House, the rest as a budget analyst at WHCA HQ at Bolling AFB. His wife worked at the Pentagon; they lived on base at Bolling.
In those days, he told me, the base newcomer’s brief spent a lot of time on “staying safe in the local area.” If your car got a flat tire in the “hood” above the base, military members were told to roll on the rim until they reached Bolling—stopping and fixing the flat or waiting for roadside assistance was considered too dangerous.
I was never assigned in DC (thank God), but did a few TDYs to the area. During a one-week training course at DIA (which is also headquartered at Bolling) I struck up a conversation with a security policeman at the base gas station. I remarked that Bolling seemed like a quiet base. “It is,” he replied, “but we sometimes get gunfire from the heights above Bolling.”
“Gangbangers?” I asked.
“Snipers,” he replied.
These guys are already voting themselves out of the gene pool. THat is one of the ways that genocide happens. Not only in gas chambers or Turkish-Syrian desert marches. Also by beating down a national or ethnic group to the point that they don’t want to reproduce to bring more guilty replicants into the world.
With that attitude, he’ll probably be robbed more often.
Its obviously his fault for living in a tony neighborhood. LOL!
Amazing how fast little liberals get into squirt guns, the bigger the better.
The story is sketchy about details of the mugging, but the author does make reference to 2:00 a.m. walkabouts, so I'll hazard the guess that he and his housemate were staggering back from the bars at an hour no honest person should be abroad. That's asking for trouble in any city. DuPont Circle back to the Georgetown University area is perfectly safe at reasonable hours of the day or evening.
Back when he was first running for mayor, Ed Koch used to tell of the time he told some senior citizens about a judge he knew who’d been mugged.
The judge, said Koch, told a group that “this mugging will not influence any of my decisions from the bench” — whereupon a woman yelled, “Mug him again!”
You knew to keep your doors locked otherwise they would open the passenger door and hop in. I didn't need a 180lb TV streetwalker with a straight razor inside my van. They would pull on your door handle and beg,plead and scream to open the door. I would say no thanks not in the market. More than once I took off with them hanging on. Never did feel a thump under the van. I guess they rolled off away from the truck.
You are talking about Anacostia 25-30 years ago, and yes, the area above Bolling was a bit dicey. (Ok, a lot dicey.) There have always been scattered middle class enclaves and neighborhood shopping venues, and a lot of Anacostia residents have always been perfectly decent working class folks. But there were (and are) too many projects and too much gang activity, so time of day and street awareness matter.
Bolling is down on the river. Like the rest of the Anacostia riverfront, it is sealed from Anacostia proper by I-295. There is very limited access to the various riverfront destinations, which leads to an interesting pattern of development and use. I played football and softball in adult leagues for years in Anacostia Park, right down on the river, and my daughters have grown up playing soccer there. It is a lovely place to play (aside from the decided slope down towards the river in some sections). But it is part of Capitol Hill lore that suburban youth soccer teams occasionally forfeited games rather than drive into dreaded "Anacostia," not having the slightest idea of the character of the park. That's not to say I'd wander around on foot in the wee hours, to be sure.
The St. Elizabeth's campus is on the heights across the highway and above Bolling. St. E's is now being turned into a major headquarters campus for DHS. That whole section of Anacostia will be transformed in another 10 years.
You forgot the SARC label. You ARE kidding, right? My spayed girl-cat is more manly than this critter. No wonder he was mugged. Might as well have a tattoo on his forehead, "Mug me, I'm a stupid liberal who will justify your crime." The proper response would have been to shoot the perp or give them the beat-down of their miserable life. Preferably followed by shooting. Don't waste taxpayer $$ on vermin like this.
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